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JOHN A. TOOMEY, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1936;52(6):1361-1374.

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An excellent review of the histologic and pathologic features of poliomyelitis is contained in Faber's monograph.¹ He considered and reviewed the various theories of the propagation of the virus. The theory that the virus spreads along the nerve axons, suggested by Römer² and demonstrated by Hurst³ and Fairbrother and Hurst,⁴ is the theory of Faber's choice and is the theory best fitted to explain the spread of the virus in the human being and in the experimental animal.

Hurst³ injected the virus intracerebrally into eighteen Macacus rhesus monkeys, and sections were taken at the onset of symptoms. Subsequently ten animals were studied⁴ to ascertain the manner of propagation of the virus. The latter animals were killed after varying intervals, and sections were taken and studied histologically.

This paper is a report on the histologic and pathologic aspects of poliomyelitis found in Macacus rhesus monkeys . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

From the Department of Pediatrics, Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and the Division of Contagious Diseases, City Hospital, and aided in part by a grant received from the President's Birthday Ball Commission for Infantile Paralysis Research.

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